"Criticism, as I understand and practice it, is evaluative as well
as interpretive," writes Eugene Goodheart. Pieces of Resistance is
a collection of Goodheart's essays and reviews written between 1960
and 1985. The book responds to the political, cultural, and
literary changes expressed during this period by novelists,
critics, and journalists. Goodheart's exemplary figures include
Lionel Trilling, Philip Rahv, and V.S. Naipaul: writers he believes
share a particular sensitivity to literary and cultural ideologies
that distort and diminish our understanding of the world.
Goodheart's book is divided into three parts. The first section
discusses critics Trilling, Rahv, Leslie Fiedler, Geoffrey Hartman,
David Bleich, and Susan Sontag--to name a few. The second part
devotes itself to contemporary culture and includes essays on
journals such as The New York Review of Books, Commentary, and The
Evergreen Review, which in the 1960s and early 1970s provided a
well-lit playground for various political, cultural, and literary
themes. Finally, Goodheart examines the work of many modern writers
with essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer, Daniel Fuchs, Ralph Ellison,
Nadine Gordimer, V.S. Naipaul, Bernard Malamud, William Styron,
Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, and Saul Bellow. Goodheart does
not pretend to impersonal objectivity; his commitment to evaluative
criticism--seeing a text in its relationship to political and
cultural movements--is a deliberate response to current,
increasingly specialized forms of criticism.
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